The Mausoleum Club Forum

Executive producer Michael Blakstad. I believe he’s still around and lives in East Meon in Hampshire. I’m sure if you googled you would find a way to contact him quite easily if you felt it worthwhile?

Strange that on Talking Pictures the ad breaks are in completely different places- wonder why? (Also noted that in episode 1 of series 2 the second of the 3 actresses to play Mrs VdV turns up in a different role.) Because at the time of the original transmission this prog was only permitted by the ...

...Each company had their own format, there was no standard layout imposed on the companies by the ITA/IBA... There's an example ATV one here . That’s an interesting document and intrigues me somewhat more for what it doesn’t show. It doesn’t give any detailed information about the timing and posit...

Happened to catch one of these on TPTV on the telly last night, I did not see any of this series originally as I was a student at the time with other things to do than watch telly! I really enjoyed everything about it, the quality of the acting from all the main characters, the mixture of VT and 16m...

My wife travelled down from Scotland to take up one of these posts, albeit a few years later. You probably all see her work everyday now if you did but know.

Public Eye being a classic textbook example of a thoughtful script, masterfully executed. Always a treat to watch his ‘stuff’.

The agreement between the ACTT and the ITV companies at the time was quite clear in this respect. If an ITV company was unable to transmit a programme to any other ITV company due to industrial action then the receiving company(ies) had to individually fill the space with locally sourced material.

Are there any broadcasters out there who can comment on this bizarre observation I've made ? OK - the scene in the newsroom is set with our presenter leading up to a report from a correspondent anywhere in the world. You can see said correspondent on a monitor in the background. Standard head and s...

Although I don't think Russell Harty Plus was ever *fully* networked, I believe some other ITV regions apart from LWT did take the programme at various stages of its existence. I certainly don't remember seeing it in the HTV West region (where I lived until 1978), although that might simply have be...

The answer to you first question is surely self evident - self promotion. I can’t quite see where we’re going with this. I used to be closely involved with the C4 presentation suite at LWT and I’m telling you that we did very occasional local promotions. ‘Meanwhile over on ITV’ sort of things etc. ...

Yes, there was local continuity - certainly in London at the weekends. But the opportunity to do it was obviously determined by the C4 presentation facility at each individual ITV company, and crucially, the slots made available in the C4 schedule to do it. It was very limited, and those companies ...

Yes, there was local continuity - certainly in London at the weekends. But the opportunity to do it was obviously determined by the C4 presentation facility at each individual ITV company, and crucially, the slots made available in the C4 schedule to do it. It was very limited, and those companies ...

The programme was being produced by an independent production company using the technical facilities at LWT. I think it was in Studio 3. Ah, thanks for that - as I suspected. Some ITV companies had simple facilities to just insert local commercials and others had somewhat grander facilities to prod...

I was suggesting that the ITV franchise holders were responsible for playout of all IBA controlled channels in their area, although LWT could easily be the London playout to the network feed (assuming I understand how it worked) and the ITV franchise holders then had duty offices to monitor the pla...

The programme was being produced by an independent production company using the technical facilities at LWT. I think it was in Studio 3. So, the facilities were being manned by LWT staff. Whether LWT’s television production facility had ‘morphed’ from ‘LWT Production Facilities’ to ‘The London Studi...

Point of order Mr Chairman, post 1993 the programme companies became licence holders in their areas, they were no longer referred to as programme contractors.

The After Dark incident was quite an extraordinary story which I don't think I'd appreciated properly until now: the show was taken off air for 20 minutes because of a hoax call, and subsequently came back. This letter from the programme's producer was published in Broadcast magazine on 27 November...

I’m sure Christopher Robbie would be up for it.

Just to side track a little, the 25th celebrations at LWT weren’t just restricted to on-air events. There were also cast reunions at Kent House. I remember of a lot of the remaining cast of ‘On the Buses’ being warmly welcomed to one such event in the hospitality suite.

I thought his performance in Granada’s “The Caesars” was certainly at least equal to Derek Jacobi’s In “I Claudius“. Both great of course.

There was a Philip Mackie season too, including a complete repeat of The Organization , the play The Naked Civil Servant and single editions from Maupassant and Saki . The channel also repeated The Human Jungle in its entirety as well as the half-hour Danger Man s. I recorded this C4 transmission o...

I'd assume any necessary restoration would have been done for the DVD releases? Despite being a child of 1957 myself, I had not previously seen a single episode of the Up series until this latest. I found 63 Up absolutely fascinating, I'm tempted at investing £17 on the DVDs of all the previous ser...

Not exactly changed sides. The ITA London Franchise holder changed from A-R to Thames, but as Thames was a shotgun marriage with A-R the junior partner, it is a tenuous change if at all. Associated Newspapers had long sold its interest in A-R before the franchise changes in 1968, by then the compan...

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Would you ‘do’ one with LWT on the side? Or maybe blank so that I could add one?

One of the more recent well known ones, was when a the wrong chap was being interviewed on a particular subject and then admitted several minutes into it, that he was there to talk about something else.! As in? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc Yes!...that's it...didn't realise it was THA...

Mark wrote:One of the more recent well known ones, was when a the wrong chap was being interviewed on a particular subject and then admitted several minutes into it, that he was there to talk about something else.!

As in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc

I could never think of it as "The London Studios" only the LWT studios. I was working the other side of the rive when they still had the scaffolding up on the tower and the building next to it had Daily Mil on the frontage. It was only modern looking building between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridge...

You’re right, “Wish Me Luck” ran into 1990 (presumably RX 1989) and “The Charmer” was 1987 so I rather think that “Wish Me Luck” was the last LWT multi-cam drama recorded at TLS. Although of course there may have been subsequent stuff. Where was “A Perfect Hero” recorded? TX 1991 and it was a co-pr...

Seems incredible it's all being destroyed as Kent Tower (was that what it was called?) is by no means an ugly blot on the landscape IMHO. I think the last traditional VT drama made there was the The Charmer which of course is long time ago now. But LWT upped it's game to ATV when it moved there and...